LIFE OF VIJAYKRISHNA

to sing the names and glories of the Lord at the specified
periods of the days and the nights. He never took his
bed, never slept. This was his habit for many long years.
He had the determination not to lie down before the last
-moment of his life. He was in constant communion with

his Beloved.

On the night previous to the day of his final merging
of the self in the Universal Self, he blessed all his disciples,
o-ave them some parting lessons, asked them to be true
to the Sadhana they received and told them that from
that day Jagannath Himself would take their entire charge.
He hinted that he was going to abandon his apparent
individuality and to be absolutely unified with Jagannalh,
the Lord of the universe.

At 9-20 P.M. of the 22nd day of the month of
Jaistha in the year 1306 of the Bengali era, just after
one lunar month from the date of his taking poison, the
Master left the body and became one with Jagannath. So
long he had been enjoying the Infinite Life in the finite ;

now his finite life was merged in the Infinite. The finite
.and mortal psycho-physical organism, through which the
Infinite and Eternal Life immanent in the universe had
been enjoying Its Divinity in a specialised form under
worldly conditions, and making as it were an exhibition
of Its most glorious attributes of Love, Beauty, Freedom,
Goodness and Blissfulness to countless men and women
of the present age, was now allowed to be dissolved in
the elements of the universe, while the Life within shone
in Its universal character and continued to shower Its
blessings upon all creatures, and especially the spiritual
aspirants. Though there was very little change in the
true- self of the Master, the disciples who had been
•accustomed to see him and to be blessed with his Divine
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